An important air services agreement was signed between T&T and the United Arab Emirates yesterday.
It was all part of bilateral negotiation meetings which Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne attended in New York.
Browne is heading this country’s delegation attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
The event is scheduled to conclude this weekend.
The development with the United Arab Emirates was among other meetings with several partners and key stakeholders, which Browne said was held yesterday by T&T.
Browne also did a presentation at the Caricom/India Ministerial meeting. That meeting was aimed at further enhancing the relationship between Caricom and India. It was hosted by India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. In another round of discussions, Browne also delivered remarks at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Group of 77 and China.
The Group of 77 is the largest inter-governmental organisation of developing countries in the United Nations, which provides the means for the countries of the South to articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues.